Ñamérica

There is a region of the world where twenty countries and more than 400 million people share a language, a history, a culture, concerns and hopes. We know it badly; we know above all its myths, its reflections, its common places; we think of it as it used to be. This region is called or could be called America - and this book wants to tell and understand it as it is now. Martín Caparrós has been touring it for many years and has looked at it from all sides: from its big cities to its small towns, from its reggaeton to its economies, from its violence to its meals, from its governments to its football, from its inequality to its insurrections, from its migrants to its books, from its defiant women to its corrupt politicians, from its newly rich to its always poor, from its history to its diverse futures. With all this, Ñamérica puts together a fresco that shows us that Ñamérica is not what we thought. A mestizo book, a cross of words, Ñamérica is, like El Hambre before, a chronicle that thinks, an essay that tells, a great story mounted with that style that defines its author as one of the decisive storytellers of the language.